EXCLUSIVE: Dubai-based management and production company 75East has signed Lebanese filmmaker Cyril Aris as his debut feature A Sad and Beautiful World makes waves on the festival circuit.

The film won the Audience Award at Venice Film Festival parallel section Giornate degli Autori in September and has since played at a raft of festivals including London, Athens and Montpellier, and will soon be setting off for the MENA autumn circuit.

It is also Lebanon ’s submission for the Best International Feature Film in the 98th Academy Awards.

The sweeping romance set across three decades of passion, loss, and hope in Beirut stars Hassan Akil and Mounia Akl as Nino and Yasmina, star-crossed lovers bound by a magnetic relationship, one an eternal optimist and the other an impulsive

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